Zhou Yang (short tracker)

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Zhou Yang Short track
Zhou Yang (center) after her Olympic victory in 2014
nation China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
birthday June 9, 1991
Career
National squad since 2006
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 6 × gold 4 × silver 5 × bronze
JWM medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold 2010 Vancouver 1500 m
gold 2010 Vancouver 3000 m relay
gold 2014 Sochi 1500 m
ISU Short track world championships
silver 2007 Milan 3000 m relay
bronze 2007 Milan 1000 m
bronze 2007 Milan 3000 m
gold 2008 Gangneung 3000 m
silver 2008 Gangneung All-round
silver 2008 Gangneung 1000 m
bronze 2008 Gangneung 1500 m
bronze 2008 Gangneung 3000 m relay
gold 2009 Vienna 3000 m
gold 2009 Vienna 3000 m relay
silver 2009 Vienna 1500 m
bronze 2009 Vienna All-around
gold 2013 Debrecen 3000 m relay
World team championshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
gold 2008 Harbin team
gold 2009 Heerenveen team
ISU Short track junior world championships
gold 2006 Miercurea Ciuc 1500 m superfinals
gold 2006 Miercurea Ciuc 3000 m relay
bronze 2006 Miercurea Ciuc 1000 m
bronze 2006 Miercurea Ciuc 1500 m
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 2, 2006
 World Cup victories 25 (including 9 individual wins)
 1000 m world cup 3. ( 2009/10 , 2010/11 )
 1500 m world cup 1. ( 2008/09 , 2009/10 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 1000 meters 3 3 3
 1500 meters 6th 3 9
 Relay / team 16 3 0
last change: November 18, 2015

Zhou Yang ( Chinese  周 洋 , Pinyin Zhōu Yáng ; born June 9, 1991 in Changchun ) is a Chinese short tracker .

Career

The first international appearance Zhou took place in January 2006 at the Junior World Championships in Miercurea Ciuc , where she could win two gold medals, one over 1500 m and one in the relay. She also won the bronze medal over 500 meters and was third overall. In December 2006 she made her first appearance in the Short Track World Cup , in six individual races she came on the podium once when she was third in the 1000 m, and she always achieved top 10 placements. Also with the relay she performed successfully in the 2006/07 season and celebrated several World Cup victories. At the 2007 World Championships , she won two bronze medals over 1000 and 3000 meters, she also won silver in the relay and was a good fourth in the all-round competition.

The 2007/08 season was the most successful so far for Zhou, she triumphed twice in individual World Cups and celebrated a total of four podium finishes there, and she also came third in the 1500 m discipline world cup. With the relay, in which she was now regularly used, she won a total of five times and clearly won the overall World Cup. Zhou was also successful at the 2008 World Championships , winning the gold medal in the 3000 m race and finishing second overall behind her compatriot Wang Meng , who had won all races except for the longest distance. Otherwise, she won one silver and two bronze medals at that world championship, only missing the podium at the 500 m distance. She won the gold medal at the 2008 Short Track Team World Championships in Harbin .

Zhou also got off to a very good start in the 2008/09 World Cup , winning four times in the first six races, twice over 1500 m each and with the relay. She also finished second in the two other competitions over 1000 m and 1500 m respectively. At the World Cup station in her home country, Zhou failed to win an individual World Cup for the first time during the season, but triumphed with the relay. She came second over 1000 m and 1500 m. At the World Cup in Nagano she also won with the relay and at the World Cup in Sofia she reached third place over 1500 m. In March at the Short Track World Championships in Vienna in 2009 she won bronze in the all - around , silver in the 1500 m and gold in each of the 3000 m and with the relay. In the same month she won the gold medal at the Short Track Team World Championships 2009 in Heerenveen as in the previous year. She finished the season in fifth place in the overall world cup over 1000 m and first place in the overall world cup over 1500 m. At the beginning of the following season she won the 1500 m in Beijing and came third in the 1500 m in Seoul . In the further course of the season she won twice over 1500 m and twice with the relay. At her first Olympic participation in Vancouver in 2010 , she won the gold medal with the relay and over 1500 m. Her best placement at the 2010 Short Track World Championships in Sofia was eighth place over 100 m. At the end of the season she reached third place in the overall world cup over 1000 m and, as in the previous year, won the overall world cup over 1500 m.

In the 2010/11 season , Zhou reached 11 podium finishes in the World Cup. She won five wins, three of them with the relay, one over 1000 m and one over 1500 m. In the overall World Cup over 1000 m she came third and in the overall World Cup over 1500 m she came in second. Her best World Cup placement in the two following seasons was sixth over 1500 m in February 2013 in Dresden . At the 2013 Short Track World Championships in Debrecen , she won the gold medal with the relay. In the 2013/14 season , she took second place twice and first place in the World Cup with the relay. Over 1500 m she came third twice and thus also reached third place overall over 1500 m. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she won gold in the 1500 m. In the following season, at the end of the season in Erzurum , she won her 25th World Cup victory with the relay.

Personal bests

  • 500 m 43.992 sec. (installed on February 17, 2010 in Vancouver)
  • 1000 m 1: 29.049 min. (installed on February 26, 2010 in Vancouver)
  • 1500 m 2: 16.993 min. (installed on February 20, 2010 in Vancouver)
  • 3000 m 4: 58.955 min. (installed on March 8, 2009 in Vienna)

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

  • 2010 Vancouver : 1st place relay, 1st place 1500 m, 5th place 500 m, 8th place 1000 m
  • 2014 Sochi : 1st 1500 m, 7th relay

World championships

  • 2007 Milan : 2nd place relay, 3rd place 1000 m, 3rd place 3000 m, 4th place all-around, 4th place 1500 m, 5th place 500 m
  • 2008 Gangneung : 1st place 3000 m, 2nd place all-around, 2nd place 1000 m, 3rd place 1500 m, 3rd place relay, 4th place 500 m
  • 2008 Harbin : 1st place team
  • 2009 Vienna : 1st place 3000 m, 1st place relay, 2nd place 1500 m, 3rd place all-around, 4th place 500 m, 4th place 1000 m
  • 2009 Heerenveen : 1st place team
  • 2010 Sofia : 8th place 1000 m, 13th place 1500 m, 14th place all-around, 14th place 500 m
  • 2013 Debrecen : 1st place relay, 5th place 1000 m, 7th place 1500 m, 13th place all-around, 21st place 500 m

World Cup victories

singles

No. date place discipline
01. 0February 3, 2008 CanadaCanada Quebec 1000 m
02. February 10, 2008 United StatesUnited States Salt Lake City 1500 m
03. October 18, 2008 United StatesUnited States Salt Lake City 1500 m
04th October 26, 2008 CanadaCanada Vancouver 1500 m
05. September 19, 2009 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing 1500 m
06th 0November 8, 2009 CanadaCanada Montreal 1000 m
07th November 15, 2009 United StatesUnited States Marquette 1500 m
08th. October 30, 2010 CanadaCanada Quebec 1000 m
09. October 31, 2010 CanadaCanada Quebec 1500 m

Season

No. date place
01. October 21, 2007 CanadaCanada Harbin 1
02. October 28, 2007 JapanJapan Kobe 1
03. November 25, 2007 NetherlandsNetherlands Heerenveen 1
04th 0December 2, 2007 ItalyItaly Turin 1
05. 0February 3, 2008 CanadaCanada Québec 2
06th October 19, 2008 United StatesUnited States Salt Lake City 3
07th October 26, 2008 CanadaCanada Vancouver 3
08th. November 30, 2008 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing 3
09. 0December 7, 2008 JapanJapan Nagano 3
10. 0November 8, 2009 CanadaCanada Montreal 4
11. November 15, 2009 United StatesUnited States Marquette 3
12. October 24, 2010 CanadaCanada Montreal 5
13. October 31, 2010 CanadaCanada Québec 5
14th December 12, 2010 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shanghai 5
15th 17th November 2013 RussiaRussia Kolomna 6
16. February 15, 2015 TurkeyTurkey Erzurum 7

2With Wang Meng, Meng Xiaoxue and Liu Qiuhong.
3With Wang Meng, Liu Qiuhong and Zhang Hui .
4thWith Liu Qiuhong, Zhang Hui and Sun Linlin .
5With Liu Qiuhong, Zhang Hui and Fan Kexin .
6th With Wang Meng, Fan Kexin and Liu Qiuhong.
7thWith Tao Jiaying , Fan Kexin and Lin Yue .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of the Junior World Championships 2006 ( memento from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on worldshorttrack
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Zhou is the family name here, Yang is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Zhou, Yang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 周 洋 (Chinese); Zhōu, Yáng (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese short tracker
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Changchun